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LONGVIEW, Texas — EnVue Telematics now offers products and services from Craig Safety Technology. Two services from Craig Safety Technologies are The Hiring Path and Driver Qualification (DQ) File Management. According to a news release, the former automates much of the employee onboarding process, while the latter provides fleets with the number one DQ File Management Software available. “We’re proud to offer the products and services of company that is known across the industry for the high quality of its products and services,” Randy Read, co-founder of EnVue Telematics, said. “The application of technology to solve fleet challenges is where we place our focus, and we’re always searching for companies that do that better than anyone else. Craig Safety Technologies belongs in that category.” “Choosing the right partner is imperative for success,” Brenda Craig, CEO and founder of Craig Safety Technologies, said. “The right technology, with its consistent processes and systems, will help organizations grow efficiently. “CST is thrilled to work with EnVue Telematics and their partners to provide the ultimate platform. Together we will assist the logistics and transportation industry reach new and better compliance and technology standards.” What Craig Safety Technologies offers fleets Craig Safety Technologies created Compliance Safety Manager and The Hiring Path to offer a system to help manage all of the driver compliance requirements mandated by the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) and U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT). The Hiring Path allows fleets to no longer deal with multiple third-party vendors when working with driver-related documents or performing background checks. Services provided by the system include: Electronic application. A custom URL to link with an online application that employers can use for receiving employment applications. Pre-Employment Screening Program. FMCSA’s Pre-Employment Screening Program check that provides a driver’s five-year crash history and three-year inspection history. Motor Vehicle Reports. Access to Motor Vehicle Record (MVR) reports from all 50 states. Criminal Background Check. Access to a felony and misdemeanor search of every jurisdiction of residence for an applicant within the last seven years. DOT Employment Verification. Validate past employment, on-the-job accidents, and previous drug and alcohol tests. Drug Screening. Includes specimen collection, testing at SAMHSA-certified laboratory, and review by a qualified Medical Review Officer. The Driver Qualification File Management system handles all required DQ elements. Those include employment applications, MVRs, DOT medical cards, road test certificates, driver’s annual list of violations, supervisor’s review of violations, driver’s licenses, and drug screens. The software offered by Craig Safety Technologies focuses on streamlining regulatory compliance and driver onboarding processes, as well as helping managers better manage risk and improve fleet safety.

Cleveland, Ohio — ContainerPort Group is expanding its motor carrier network with the introduction of Bristol Transportation, a newly-launched drayage provider operating in Charleston, South Carolina; Chicago and Savannah, Georgia. According to a news release, the launch of Bristol strengthens CPG’s nationwide trucking solutions by adding capacity for customers in major port markets experiencing rising import volumes. “Expanding the CPG network with the opening of Bristol Transportation in these strategic locations will help us cater to the shift we are seeing in diverting cargo away from the West Coast and pushing volumes up in the East and Gulf coasts,” Joey Palmer, president of CPG, said. “Investing in solutions that address the supply chain challenges that our customers are facing demonstrates our tireless commitment to ensuring we are bringing solutions to the table that meet the goals of our customers and owner operators alike.” Bristol Transportation provides port and inland drayage capacity solutions serving three key transportation markets — Charleston, Chicago and Savannah. Additionally, Bristol Transportation offers compensation and support for its owner and offers DrayPal, which enables drivers to track settlements, safety scores, and meet financial goals. “We do things differently at Bristol Transportation; it’s not your typical drayage company,” Zach Hadden, regional director at Bristol Transportation, said. “We provide our drivers with the best compensation package on the market and 24/7 access to a wide range of support services that go far beyond what is offered by your typical trucking company. This strong support is what keeps our drivers engaged and ultimately results in better on-time delivery rates and top-notch customer service.” Bristol Transportation offers following to its customers: Secure yards with option for pre-pulls and storage. Company chassis, including tri-axels for handling overweight 20’s. Auto-generated reports from TMS system built specifically on customer’s parameters. Local and regional drayage. Long-haul trucking (OTR). Overweight loads. “With Bristol Transportation on board, CPG demonstrates our continuous commitment to serving market demand by growing our network — ensuring cargo travels quickly to, from, and within these critical markets,” Palmer said.  

OKLAHOMA CITY – Love’s Travel Stops is now serving customers in Monroe Center, Illinois, thanks to a travel stop that opened Thursday. The store, located off Interstate 39 at Exit 111 (16991 East Illinois Route 72), adds 70 truck parking spaces and 55 jobs to Ogle County. “Love’s is continuing to open new locations to provide customers with clean and safe places to stop, making summer travel more convenient,” Greg Love, co-CEO of Love’s, said. “The Love’s in Monroe Center is the company’s 32nd location in Illinois, and our team members are excited to help get professional truck drivers and four-wheel customers back on the road quickly and safely.” The location is open 24/7 and offers many amenities, including: More than 12,000 square feet. Godfather’s Pizza and Subway (opening July 18). 70 truck parking spaces. 64 car parking spaces. Four RV parking spaces. Seven diesel bays. Six showers. Laundry facilities. CAT scale. Bean-to-cup gourmet coffee. Brand-name snacks. Fresh Kitchen concept. Mobile to Go Zone with the latest GPS, headsets and smartphone accessories. Dog park. In honor of the grand opening, Love’s will donate $2,000 to Stillman Valley High School.

PHOENIX – PrePass Safety Alliance has acquired CVO Holding Company LLC. The Alliance introduced PrePass, the original connected vehicle technology, with the support of CVO in 1993. Since then, the PrePass weigh station bypass program has provided more than a billion safe bypasses of open weigh facilities, saving the trucking industry over 405 million gallons of fuel and $7.9 billion in operating costs, according to a news release. According to company officials, PrePass reduced truck-related pollution in the same timeframe by more than 905,000 metric tons, the equivalent of taking 161,000 automobiles off the road. More than 105,000 motor carriers and more than 700,000 trucks subscribe to PrePass bypass and electronic toll payment services. “This is the perfect match of two organizations that introduced the concept of connected vehicle technology to the trucking industry and have led the way ever since,” Mark Doughty, president and CEO of PrePass Safety Alliance, said. “CVO has supported PrePass from its inception, helping grow the program into America’s leading weigh station bypass service. The Alliance views this strategic acquisition as an exciting opportunity to better serve its state and industry partners while fulfilling our non-profit mission to make highways safer and more efficient through innovative, data-driven solutions.” Skip Kinford, president and CEO of CVO Holdings Company, LLC, said that over the past three decades, the CVO team “has delivered cutting edge technology and world-class support to PrePass Safety Alliance and the PrePass program. This acquisition creates an alignment of effort and focus between our organizations that will drive the next generation of commercial motor vehicle safety innovation. We are thrilled to join the Alliance as one team with one mission.”  

RENO, Nev. — Full Tilt Logistics has announced a massive expansion of its operation. The company said in a Wednesday, July 13, news release that it has acquired a new 250,000-square-foot warehouse space located on Prototype Drive in South Reno. Company officials said the expansion will allow the company to hire additional staff. “Strategically positioned in Northern Nevada, Full Tilt is able to deliver goods nationwide and can distribute to the eleven Western states within 24 hours,” according to the news release. Full Tilt Logistics’ headquarters and the company’s new warehouse are on two major highway corridors: Interstate 80 and U.S. Highway 395. “We are so fortunate to have a loyal customer base already. Now we can easily accommodate our existing customers’ growing needs, and make room for many new customers,” Tiffany Novich, president of Full Tilt Logistic, said. “We have been building this business with intention for almost a decade and it’s exciting to see our vision coming to fruition.” The new facility has 12 service doors allowing trucks to load and unload goods. The company expects more than 50 employees on site, helping to expand not only the company but also generate local jobs.

LOWELL, Ark. – J.B. Hunt Transport Services Inc. announced Wednesday it will open its first transload service facility to support international cargo along the West Coast and streamline its inland transportation for customers. The facility, supporting the Los Angeles and Long Beach area, will provide port drayage and transloading services, with quick access to outbound rail and highway transport, a news release stated. “The increase in import activity over recent years has created a bottleneck at the port, resulting in inefficient delays and rising costs,” Shelley Simpson, chief commercial officer and executive vice president of people and human resources at J.B. Hunt, said. “We are providing customers with a complete solution that not only alleviates those challenges, it can accelerate their ability to meet domestic demand by offering a seamless port, transload, and domestic outbound move.” To streamline port drayage, J.B. Hunt will have a company fleet dedicated to transporting inbound ocean freight from the port to the new facility, minimizing demurrage and per diem costs and accelerating the turn time to prepare freight for domestic transport. Cargo containers will be loaded directly onto company-owned marine chassis and arrive at the J.B. Hunt facility for transloading into domestic trailing equipment supported by its company fleet. “A transloading model provides customers with a more efficient flow of international containers through the supply chain by eliminating imbalanced moves and turning boxes faster,” Darren Field, president of intermodal and executive vice president at J.B. Hunt, said. “Having optionality between domestic intermodal and interior-point intermodal (IPI) services will be important for our customers when uncertainties remain pervasive.” The new transloading operation, located only minutes from Interstate 5 and Interstate 710, includes a 91,000-square-foot warehouse and 8 acres of parking for up to 300 containers. With close proximity to both port and rail terminals, the facility will provide shippers with quick, preferred access to J.B. Hunt’s 53’ intermodal container fleet and highway services, including the company’s J.B. Hunt360box® drop-and-hook trailer program. J.B. Hunt opened its first transload service in November 2021 to assist shippers in the New York metro area with port drayage, transloading and inland linehaul solutions. With today’s announcement, J.B. Hunt now offers customers a solution for their international containers arriving into the largest port gateway market on both coasts.

GREENWICH, Conn. — XPO Logistics, Inc. has announced that a new company identity has been created in connection with the planned spin-off of its tech-enabled brokerage platform. “The spin-off is named RXO to reflect the company’s commitment to provide reliability multiplied by outperformance. RXO will go to market with the tagline ‘Massive capacity. Cutting-edge technology,’” according to a news release. XPO unveiled the new company’s identity on a landing page, RXO.com, where visitors can register to receive news about the spin-off’s upcoming milestones and leadership appointments. “Our spin-off now has a name — RXO — bringing it one step closer to becoming a standalone industry leader,” Brad Jacobs, chairman and chief executive officer of XPO Logistics, said. “Our best-in-class truck brokerage business will be the keystone of RXO’s asset-light platform, poised to continue to take share of a growing market.” “The new brand embodies our competitive positioning of reliable outperformance, propelled by multiple tailwinds,” Drew Wilkerson, XPO’s president, North American transportation, who has been named to become chief executive officer of RXO, said. “RXO will launch with a widely adopted digital platform that gives shippers and carriers the automation they demand. I’m excited to lead our team to even greater achievements as a tech-enabled pure-play.” As previously announced, XPO intends to separate its asset-based less-than-truckload business from its asset-light brokered transportation platform, creating two independent, publicly traded companies with vast growth prospects in North America. The spin-off’s largest component will be truck brokerage, with complementary brokered services for managed transportation, last-mile logistics and global forwarding. Usage of the RXO name, logo and other brand components will become effective upon the spin-off of RXO, Inc., which XPO expects to complete in the fourth quarter of 2022.  

CHICAGO  — Supply chain management company Redwood Logistics has announced a partnership with Cloverly, a firm that provides access to carbon credits to offset the impact of emissions from the transportation and logistics industry. The partnership with Cloverly supports the Redwood Hyperion sustainability solution, announced in June to help customers gain load-by-load visibility into their freight emissions, according to a news release. “It enables carbon-neutral shipping initiatives by bringing together flexible access to data powered by the logistics integration platform RedwoodConnect and instant access to action through verified carbon credits via Cloverly,” the news release stated. “The confluence between Redwood’s supply chain and Cloverly’s sustainability expertise was invaluable to us as we developed Redwood Hyperion as a high-quality carbon visibility and offset program,” Michael Reed, chief product officer at Redwood, said. “Shippers can’t act on what they can’t measure, and the Redwood Hyperion solution powered by Cloverly’s Sustainability-as-a-Service model allows our customers to reliably measure their freight emissions and offset them with carbon credits all in a single platform.” A carbon credit is a transferable instrument certified by governments and independent certification bodies that represents an emission reduction of one metric ton of CO2 or an equivalent amount of other Greenhouse Gases. Through Redwood Hyperion, powered by Cloverly’s marketplace, carbon emissions can be matched with a wide range of carbon credits, including blue carbon, forestry, biochar or, as close as possible, to the initial carbon-producing activity – whatever the main sustainability objective is for the shipper. “Climate action matters to customers, businesses and the planet we share, and we’re thrilled to partner with Redwood to pair emission visibility and reduction – reliably and programmatically,” Jason Rubottom, chief executive officer of Cloverly, said. “Cloverly supports every carbon-related goal with carbon credits that have co-benefits ranging from protecting biodiversity to improving education and health. Each credit is independently verified and vetted for maximum confidence in its impact.” Redwood Hyperion is the leading product of Redwood’s sustainability suite, Redwood’s initiative to support customers in minimizing their carbon footprint to create a greener and more resilient supply chain. “Redwood is focused on taking steps to achieve customers’ sustainability goals; all while improving efficiency and minimizing costs,” Reed said. “The full suite of services is designed to help customers implement green initiatives by providing visibility first, followed by a balanced approach of reduction techniques and strategies with a combination of carbon offsets.”  

CENTRAL POINT, Ore. — TP Logistics has announced that its privately owned truck fleet recently surpassed 200 trucks. In a news release, company officials called this “a significant milestone” in their plans to expand to a fleet of 500 trucks. “Our team couldn’t be prouder of surpassing the 200-truck mark and look forward to the continued growth of our fleet,” said Chris Goodman, national business manager for TP Logistics. Additionally, TP Logistics announced it will open an office in Augusta, Georgia, in August. This office will serve as the Eastern hub for TP Logistics with the sales and dispatch teams relocating from the Thomson, Georgia, and the reload facility to the new Augusta office. “Our new office in Augusta, Georgia, will give us the platform and presence necessary to grow our staff in correlation with our aggressive growth plan for our fleet,” Goodman said. Tom Gennarelli, vice president of TP Logistics, said “dynamic growth in the Southeast is creating ample opportunity for us to expand our 3PL offerings and brokerage diversification.” TP Logistics has plans to add hubs in the Midwest and Southwest in the near future.  

BELLEVILLE, Mich. — Logistics company Ascent has joined the SmartWay Transport Partnership, a collaboration between the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and industry that provides a framework to assess the environmental and energy efficiency of goods movement supply chains. Ascent joins as a logistics partner for dedicated ground transportation arranged through its on-demand business segment. According to a news release, Ascent will contribute to the partnership’s savings of 336 million barrels of oil, $44.8 billion on fuel costs,143 million metric tons of CO2, 2.7 million short tons of NOx and 112,000 short tons of PM. This is equivalent to eliminating annual energy use in over 21 million homes. By joining SmartWay Transport Partnership, Ascent demonstrates its strong environmental leadership and corporate responsibility. “We are committed to helping our ground transport carriers lead the industry in sustainability and efficiency and are honored that our On-Demand offering is a registered SmartWay logistics partner,” said Chris Jamroz, executive chairman of the board & CEO of Ascent. “This is just one more way we are demonstrating that we walk the talk when it comes to driving environmental efficiencies, including reduced fuel use and cleaner air. These are not just feel-good buzzwords; they are important factors that our customers look for from their logistics partners and we are excited to be able to demonstrate our commitment through measurable metrics.” Developed jointly in early 2003 by EPA and Charter Partners and represented by industry stakeholders, environmental groups, the American Trucking Associations and Business for Social Responsibility, the program was launched in 2004. Partners rely on SmartWay tools and approaches to track and reduce emissions and fuel use from goods movement. The partnership currently has nearly 4,000 Partners including shipper, logistics companies, truck, rail, barge and multimodal carriers. “Being a SmartWay transport partner will give us access to the EPA’s emissions calculating tools, which are the gold standard of fuel efficiency and sustainability accounting, helping ensure our tracking is on the leading edge,” David Camden, vice president of operations for Ascent, said. “The robust data provided to us through SmartWay will help us provide our carriers with the measurable data needed to demonstrate our competitive advantage, as well as enable us to stay on top of the most up-to-date intelligence needed to continuously improve operational efficiencies and drive success for carriers, customers and Ascent.”  

BAKERSFIELD, Calif. — Pacific Drayage Services has opened a new location in central California at 4115 Fruitvale Avenue in Bakersfield. This facility features a paved, lit, fenced yard with 24-hour security-controlled access; room for storage of 100 containers on chassis; and 10,000 square feet of warehousing space complete with six bay doors, enabling PDS to provide transloading services for its valued customers. “Our new Bakersfield location is hugely beneficial to our drivers and our customers alike,” Jim Gillis, president of Pacific Drayage Services, said. “Our drivers can now park their trucks at our secure facility overnight, providing them with local access outside of LAX. For our customers, our new facility offers them easy access to greater velocity and transloading services in Central California outside of the Los Angeles market.” For more information on PDS, call )844) 903-4737 or visit www.pdsusa.com.

OKLAHOMA CITY– Love’s Travel Stops is now serving customers in Clarksville, Arkansas, thanks to a travel stop that opened Thursday. The store located off Interstate 40 (1025 S. Crawford St.) adds 114 truck parking spaces and 115 jobs to Johnson County. “Opening our 16th location in Arkansas, means giving customers better access to clean and safe places while they’re on the road,” Greg Love, co-CEO of Love’s, said. “The new Love’s in Clarksville will offer a variety of fresh food, snacks and drinks located directly off the interstate.” The location is open 24/7 and offers many amenities, including: More than 13,000 square feet. Bojangles (Opening July 11). 114 truck parking spaces. 60 car parking spaces. Four RV parking spaces. Nine diesel bays. Eight showers. CAT scale. Speedco. Bean-to-cup gourmet coffee. Brand-name snacks. Fresh Kitchen concept. Mobile to Go Zone with the latest GPS, headsets and smartphone accessories. Dog park. In honor of the grand opening, Love’s will donate $2,000 to the Johnson County 4H Club.